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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced last week it will delay a rule requiring physicians to use a new version of its Advance Beneficiary Notice of Noncoverage form.
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State laws are key when supervising non-physician clinicians
The degree of oversight required differs by state and sometimes by the type of NPC (e.g, nurse practitioner or physician assistant).